Books by David
Irving

Released March 2002. The 1,032 page full length history
of Hitler's WW2 years, based on private papers, diaries, and
interviews of his staff. Constantly revised and updated over
30 years. A standard work, with 40 pages of color and b/w
photos.

Released July 2001. The 1,024 page second volume
(1941-1943) of the major biography of Churchill's WW2 years,
based on private and official papers and diaries; a 30 year
project. A standard work, with 32 pages of color and b/w
photos.

Originally a newspaper series published by Welt am
Sonntag, Germany; expanded to a full length book over 20
years, including the private papers and unpublished diaries
of the Nazi war criminals and the Allied and Soviet
prosecutors and judges. This very popular book has 300
pages, 32 pages of rare color and b/w photos of trial.

The author was the first to be allowed to use the
Goebbels diaries found in the KGB archives in Moscow. He had
already spent 8 years researching the Nazi propaganda
minister's life from other sources. 700 pages, 40 pages of
rare color and b/w photos.

In 1990 Mondadori commissioned Mr Irving to transcribe
and annotate the hitherto missing 1938 volume of Dr Goebbels
handwritten diaries, found in the KGB archives in Moscow. He
wrote an extensive introduction to the diary.

Updated edition of Mr Irving's first bestselling history
of the British/American holocaust air raid on Dresden which
mkilled up to 100,000 Germans in one night. 256 pages, and
pages of exclusive, horrific color and black and white
photos.

With the availability of US files on Göring's
Forschungsamt, Mr Irving expanded his 1967 book Breach of
Security into a full length German-language history of
the Forschungsamt, the equivalent of the US National
Security Agency. It remains the only history of this
important Nazi wiretap and codebreaking intelligence
agency.

Focal Point, 1991; published in this new form by Avon,
New York, 1990; Planeta, Barcelona, 1992; and (as
"Führer und Reichskanzler") by Langen-Müller
Ullstein in Germany, 1990. The Mondadori edition was
cancelled under pressure; Rachocki; Settimo Siglia,
Milan

In 1991 Mr Irving's own imprint produced an abridged,
updated, and revised edition of his Hitler biography
including the pre-war volume in one edition. This is
superseded by the 1002 Millennium edition above.

The Australian publisher Veritas produced this edition of
the first volume of the Churchill biography, 1933-1941, and
it was reprinted by Arrow Books (Random House) and by Avon
Books (USA). It is now out of print, and a new revised
edition is in preparation in the same style as the
impressive volume ii.

Never published in the USA, due to a clumsy mailing
mishap by Macmillan, this book appeared in the UK on the
death of Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, after 47 years in
Spandau prison. The book was the first to use the secret
British archives, and the entire medical diaries of his
captors. An updated edition is in preparation.

Based in part on the private diaries of Hermann
Göring, and on his private correspondence with his
first and second wives, this is the first full length
biography of Hitler's No.2. Edited by leading US editor
Thomas B Congdon. It rated first class reviews around the
world.

In 1982 Mr Irving discovered in the US National Archives
the hitherto unknown handwritten diaries of Hitler's private
physician Dr Theo Morell, and his treatment files on the
dictator ("Patient A"). He transcribed, translated and
annotated them.

A highly successful and often hilarious account of the
rivalry between the British and American top generals during
the 1944-1945 battles in France and Germany. Edited by
leading US editor Thomas B Congdon, it is based on the
generals' unknown private letters and diaries.

Using files in Budapest and Moscow, as well as the
British and American official archives, Mr Irving produced
the first full length narrative of the tragic failed 1956
uprising against the Soviet occupation of Hungary. It was
serialised for several weeks in Der Spiegel.

Before Morell's diaries became available (see above) Mr
Irving wrote a series of articles for Der Stern
magazine in Germany, using the papers and interrogations of
all the doctors who had treated Hitler. The articles
appeared as this very popular and readable paperback book in
Germany.

Nürnberg: Die Letzte Schlacht

Wilhelm Heyne, Munich,Verlag, 1979

Mr Irving wrote a series of articles for Welt am
Sonntag magazine in Germany, using the private papers
and unpublished diaries of the Nazi war criminals and the
Allied and Soviet prosecutors and judges.

Verrat und Widerstand im Dritten Reich

Kritik Verlag, Coburg 1978

Printed transcript of a lecture delivered by Mr Irving in
German, on the traitors inside Germany during WW2

The War Path

Michael Joseph, London 1978 and Viking;
Langen-Müller; Papermac; Heyne superseded by Hitler's
War & The War Path, see below

After publication of his wartime Hitler biography,
Hitler's War, Mr Irving published the prewar chapters in a
separate book. Abridged and updated, they are included in
the latest Millennium edition.

One of Mr Irving's most commercially successful books,
this full length and ground-breaking biography of Rommel
attracted brilliant reviews worldwide. Edited by leading US
editor Thomas B Congdon. It is based on his diaries, which
Mr Irving found scattered around the world, and his private
letters, as well as the wartime archive. It was serialised
for several weeks in Der Spiegel (picture)

Researching for the Hitler biography, Mr Irving learned
that Field Marshal Erhard Milch was keeping back his private
diaries for his own biography; Mr Irving volunteerd to write
that work in order to obtain access to this source. The book
was a major serial in Bild am Sonntag, and a great
success in Germany and the USA.

After the original German version of these memoirs proved
too thin for the US publishers, they commissioned Mr Irving
to translate and flesh them out.

Breach of Security

William Kimber, London 1968

Mr Irving translates and comments on an important August
1939 product of hermann Göring's wiretap agency,
outlines the agency's work and olther achievements. See
Das Reich hört mit above, which supersedes this
book (though in German only).

Neue Illustrierte commissioned a naval work from
Mr Irving as a serial, after the bombing war series boosted
its circulation by millions. He selected this tragic convoy
operation, and traced and interviewed hundreds of the
seamen, aviators and submarine officers. The book appeared
some years after the magazine serial, and led to one
of the most famous libel actions in British history.
(The current edition has of course been sanitised in
agreement with the opposing lawyers.)

Rolf Hochhuth, who wrote a play about Churchill and
Sikorski, Soldaten, prompted Mr Irving to research
the mysterious 1943 death of the Polish prime minister. The
British government expressed
deep concern about Mr Irving's work. An updated version
of the book will be published soon.

The Virus
House: The History of the Wartime German
Atomic Research programme

download in preparation

William Kimber, London 1967; published as The German
Atomic Bomb by Simon and Schuster, New York, and Da Capo
Press; Sigbert Mohn; rororo; Atomizdat Moscow

Mr Irving published the first full length account of
Hitler's atomic bomb programme; he spoke with Heisenberg,
Weizsäcker and the other atomic scientists engaged on
the project, and was first to research the German atomic
files captured by the ALSOS mission.
It was serialised for several weeks in Der Spiegel.
[The American edition -- Simon & Schuster -- was
called The German Atomic Bomb]

Originally published in German in an abridged version by
Walter Görlitz, the deathcell memoirs by Keitel were
translated by Mr Irving, who went to the trouble to put back
in all the passages excised for political reasons by the
Germans.

Built around a ceentral set-piece narrative of the heroic
British air attack on Hitler's Peenemünde rocket
research station in August 1943, this book describes the
development of the Nazi V1 and V2 missile projects and the
British countermeasures. It was serialised for several weeks
in Der Spiegel.

Now superseded by the 1996 book Apocalypse 1945: the
Destruction of Dresden (see above), David Irving's book
was the first to reveal to the non-German readers of the
world the horrifying story of the British and American air
attack on Dresden in February 1945. It was serialised for
three weeks by The Sunday Telegraph.

In 1961 the German wseekly managzine Neue
Illustrierte ran a series of articles written by David
Irving (and ghosted by journalist Günter Karweina)
narrating what was still a taboo subject for German writers,
the British saturation bombing of german cities. The series
ran for 37 weeks, and was reprinted in this superbly
illustrated Swiss book edition in 1963.